The International Institute for Information Design (IIID) is based in Vienna, Austria and its main concern is to contribute to a better understanding within the human community with respect to cultural and economic issues by means of improved visual and other forms of communication. IIID believes that data transformed into high-quality information empower people to attain goals. In other words, how to get the right information, at the right time, to the people who need it, in a form they understand and enables them to achieve a specific outcome.

IIIID is dependent on its international network of members and friends to promote information design, develop it as an interdisciplinary field of knowledge and professional practice, to carry out research and educate. This practice is continued for the IIID Awards by teaming up with the following organizations:

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Since its establishment in 1981, AXIS Magazine has taken design to be a driving force behind culture, communication and business as well as form. Design has recently been proclaimed as a socially important endeavor, and we will continue to consider it from various directions, exploring and proposing new social relations and lifestyles to our creative readers engaged in shaping the times in which we live.

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Creative design is the key to the upgrading of national competitiveness. To promote the development of the cultural and creative industry, the Taiwanese government, in 2003, had established Taiwan Design Center, a national design center. Taiwan Design Center became officially operational in 2004.
Taiwan Design Center has been positioned as an integrated platform to promote creative design. Its main mission is to upgrade original creativity of Taiwanese designers, promote international design exchanges, upgrade market competitiveness of Taiwanese industries, help enterprises build up their own brand, raise value-added of the said industries, and tell the world that the era of “Designed in Taiwan” has come.

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Supported by
the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture.

Choose a category you feel dedicated to, become a patron and
• be part of the award ceremony
• see your profile and interview with you online and in the IIIDaward book
• solidify your position in and demonstrate you support for information design disciplines
• attend the IDA Congress for free
• get your special two hours session at the DesignExpo at a 50% discount
• receive a complementary IIID membership for 2012
• become part of the international network and have access to experts and projects

>> If you are inetested please mail to Martin:
>> Download the overview hw to join IIID in Taipei/ PDF

In addition to the benefits of a patron, you will co-brand the entire IIIDaward, give a speech plus get your session at the IIIDbooth for free.

>> Download an overview how to join IIID in Taipei/ PDF
>> If you are inetested please mail to Martin:

On the occasion of the DesignExpo a directory of professionals - companies, experts, organisations and educational institutions - in information design will be published and distributed. For your entry please use the attached template.

>> Download the IIID-directory template ind and zip
>> Download the IIID-directory template PDF
>> Download the overview how to join IIID in Taipei/ PDF
>> or mail to Martin